WORSHOPS & SEMINARS: Medieval Studies in the Digital Age, a forum for medievalists from various disciplines who are interested in the digital humanities, from November 2014 to May 2015 at the University of Leeds. All events are free of charge and everyone is welcome.
Our aim is to critically discuss the role of digital technologies in the field of medieval studies as well as providing insights into current practices and ways of using digital tools in scholarship through a series of seminars and workshops. The seminar and workshop series is intended to encourage cross-disciplinary exchange among scholars who currently use or are interested in using technological tools and techniques for their research.
Medieval Studies in the Digital Age is organised by N. Kıvılcım Yavuz, Victoria Cooper, and Elizabeth Stainforth and is generously supported by the Institute for Medieval Studies, the School of History, the Leeds University Library Special Collections, and the LEAP Researcher Training Hub.
PROGRAMME OF EVENTS
18 November 2014, Tuesday, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm – Seminar
* Ralph W. Mathisen (Professor of History, Classics, and Medieval Studies, Department of History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA), ‘Garbage In Garbage Out’: The Unfulfilled Promise of Prosopographical Databases.
2 December 2014, Tuesday, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm – Seminar
* Katie Green (Communications and Access Manager, Archaeology Data Service, University of York, UK), Data Management, Digital Preservation and the Archaeology Data Service.
27 January 2015, Tuesday, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm – Seminar
* Alaric Hall (Lecturer in Medieval English Literature, School of English, University of Leeds, UK), Open-Source Scholarship.
3 February 2015, Tuesday, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm – Seminar
* Rachel Stone (Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of History, King’s College London, UK), Bits of Charters: Putting Carolingian Charters into a Database.
7 February 2015, Saturday, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm – Workshop
* Vincent Hiribarren (Lecturer in World History, Department of History, King’s College London, UK), Fundamentals of GIS and Online Map-Making.
21 February 2015, Saturday, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm – Workshop
* Tony Harris (Digital Imaging Specialist and PhD Candidate, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge, UK), Digital Imaging for Medievalists.
21 February 2015, Saturday – Workshop
* Hervin Fernández-Aceves (PhD Candidate in Medieval Studies, Institute for Medieval Studies, School of History, University of Leeds, UK), Fundamentals of Quantitative Narrative Analysis.
3 March 2015, Tuesday, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm – Seminar
* Suzanne Paul (Medieval Manuscripts Specialist, Cambridge University Library, University of Cambridge, UK and Executive Board Member, Digital Medievalist), From Parchment to Pixels: The Potential and Pitfalls of Digital Medieval Manuscripts.
10 March 2015, Tuesday, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm – Seminar
* Victoria Cooper (PhD Candidate in English Literature, School of English, University of Leeds, UK), The Interactive Middle Ages: Video Games and Medievalism.
14-15 March 2015, Saturday-Sunday, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm – Workshop
* Matthew James Driscoll (Senior Lecturer in Old Norse Philology, Arnamagnaean Institute, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen, Denmark and Curator of the Arnamagnaean Manuscript Collection), Fundamentals of Text Encoding and Medieval Manuscripts.
21 April 2015, Tuesday, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm – Seminar
* Emilia Jamroziak (Senior Lecturer in Medieval History, School of History and Deputy Director, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds, UK) and Michael Spence (Visiting Research Fellow, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds, UK), Digital Cistercians: Introduction to ‘Project Fountains’.
2-3 May 2015, Saturday-Sunday, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm – Workshop
* Elena Pierazzo (Professor of Italian Studies and Digital Humanities, Université Stendhal-Grenoble 3, France and Chair of the Text Encoding Initiative), Digital Scholarly Editing for Medievalists.
5 May 2015, Tuesday, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm – Seminar
* Estelle Stubbs (HRI Research Fellow, Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield, UK and Principal Investigator of the Networks of Bookmakers, Owners and Users in Medieval England), Medieval Studies in the Digital Humanities: A Researcher’s View.
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